On a rainy winter November day in 2020, we noticed the custom sidebars plugin notification that it was closing because of pending new WordPress features. Today, we learn that WordPress.com is starting a $5000 website building service. The writing is on the wall. WordPress is taking over their community like the Walmart or Amazon model.…
If we have learned anything from the recent SolarWinds hack, is that many companies sell Security solutions with no measurable way of verifying this claim. In fact, most companies cannot accurately tell you why anything they sell is secure, yet we believe them. Keep in mind that banks, governments, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google have all…
This is a semi-major upgrade with lots of fixes and goodies. Towards our goals for BePro Listings 3, we have made strong progress. Specifically, of the list of improvements we set for ourselves, we made strong progress on the following Increased support for different schema markup Add location information to listing URLs Increased control of…
In this episode of our Learning Gutenberg video tutorial series, we provide an overview of the editor interface. There are a lot of new features in their new interface and we will help you to find them all. Old features like the ability to edit permalinks are still there but in new places. There are…
WP Job Manager is a popular job listing solution owned by Automattic. BePro Listings is popular for company directories and is owned by the BePro Software Team. We created this BePro Listings WPJM addon to join the two plugins for free. This solution is ideal for anyone who would like to feature the companies mentioned…
This newest iteration of BePro Listings marks a culmination of a few paths. From SEO to scaling operations, we made enough changes that we thought it best that this upgrade is a major version. The latest update BePro Listings 3 has been named Nisto. This is the Cree word for the number 3. This continues…
Yes, they do, depending on your monetization plan. We create and run directory websites using the BePro Listings WordPress plugin that we created. I guess there is some benefit to understanding the technical and business aspects of running a directory website. Yelp and Yellowpages are still popular brands, so directories are definitely not dead. Google…
The newest version of BePro Listings is preparation for a major change. In this version, we have focused on the ability for the plugin to scale with customers and help them compete with the largest directories in their niche. BePro Listings is your best choice for building a directory on the WordPress CMS. Some of…
There are lots of benefits to consider when using AWS like scalability, security, and efficiency. There are also concerns to consider like configurations, architecture, and price. Set it up correctly, and your solution can weather almost any storm. Set it up incorrectly and you will have non stop issues. Many popular server solutions are actually…
Lots of acronyms but this is a simple high level article. Today, we will be discussing the creation of a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant HA (Hyper Availability) architecture on the AWS (Amazon Web Server) platform. On the surface, this may seem impossible considering that AWS is a cloud service; however, we…